On Land, At Sea, In The Air, In Space
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Tomorrow (August 13) the Bacliff Exploration Society celebrates the anniversary of the Battle of Blenheim. Remember Marlborough.
“It was the English,” Kaspar cried,
“Who put the French to rout;
But what they fought each other for
I could not well make out.
But everybody said,” quoth he,
“That ’twas a famous victory.”
The HMS Sharktypus, principal research dingy of the Bacliff Exploration Society, is primed and ready to receive its Sharktypus paint job. The finest European paints and honey badger hair paint brushes will be used for this project. It is hoped that the paint will significantly improve the vessel’s structural integrity.
A humpback whale has hit a dinghy with its tail off Australia’s coast, knocking a 13-year-old boy unconscious and breaking his collarbone. In response, the Bacliff Expeditionary Fleet has been put on crimson alert.
According to a recent report, the sun is heading into an unusual and extended hibernation. Around 2020, sunspots may disappear for years, maybe decades. This could mean the end of Ham radio as we know it. Top Ham radio scientists are working furiously in their basements as we speak to devise a solution to this grave threat.
The HMS Sharktypus is a stitch-and-glue flat-bottom dinghy with a Sharktypus paint job which is currently under construction. When complete, it will serve as the principal research dinghy of the Bacliff Exploration Society.
Squid embryos will rocket into space aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour’s last flight, and the penultimate flight of the shuttle program.
Two Australian companies are claiming to have develop the very first beer that can be consumed safely in space. It is a well-known fact that most normal beers transmutate into deadly acid in zero-gravity. This important breakthrough is a giant leap for Australian kind.
The Earhart Project is testing the hypothesis that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan landed, and eventually died, on Gardner Island, now Nikumaroro in the Republic of Kiribati. Now in its 23rd year, a major underwater search is planned for July 2012, the 75th anniversary of the flight.
Congratulations to all the members of the FASTRAC team!
The FASTRAC (Formation Autonomy Spacecraft with Thrust, Relnav, Attitude and Crosslink) satellites are a pair of satellites built by students from the University of Texas at Austin that were launched on November 19 on a Minotaur 4 rocket from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska.
Happy Trafalgar Day from the Bacliff Exploration Society.
Trafalgar Day commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar (Oct. 21, 1805), in which is the British fleet, led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated the combined fleets of France and Spain during the Napoleonic wars. In Texas, this holiday is second in importance only to San Jacinto Day.
